Stained

Examples

• There were the chemical corner and the acid-stained, deal-topped table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You observed that her right glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• What good man will ever come again under my roof if I let my floor be stained with a good man's blood! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As he held out his hand to Holmes, I perceived that it was also stained with yellow nicotine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I cannot call to mind where or when, in my childhood, I had seen a stained glass window in a church. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I shuddered at the thought that for anything I knew, his hand might be stained with blood. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I can hold them crumpled up in my hand, so no one will know how stained they are. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He was pale and dejected, stained with dust, and exhausted with hunger and fatigue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Stained-glass windows owe their charm and beauty to the presence in the glass of various dyes and pigments which absorb in different amounts some colors from white light and transmit others. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• These rulers were for the most part of the ordinary eastern type, cunning, treacherous, and blood-stained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It became a question whether he had fallen among the unrecognized; but no broken ornament or stained trapping betrayed his fate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Approaching, he observes that she has journeyed a long distance and is footsore and travel-stained. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The seats had also their stained coverings, and one, which was higher than the rest, was accommodated with a footstool of ivory, curiously carved. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The bottle stood near them, two-thirds full, and beside it lay a long, deeply stained cork. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The pale young gentleman's nose had stained my trousers, and I tried to wash out that evidence of my guilt in the dead of night. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Lizzie Hexam very softly raised the weather-stained grey head, and lifted her as high as Heaven. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood-stained magnificence, and moral squalor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Away with those blood-stained arms, and hasten some of you to bind up these wounds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How do you propose to discover the stained dress? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He rightly believed me to have made a new nightgown secretly, but he wrongly believed the paint-stained nightgown to be mine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She bent to gather up a mud-stained breadth, and followed him up the steps into the hall. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The discovery of the stained dress may lead the way to finding it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The stained article of dress may be an article of linen. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• His jacket had been stained of a bright purple hue, upon which there had been some attempt to paint grotesque ornaments in different colours. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The paint-stained dress is a dress of hers; and the fire heard crackling in her room at four in the morning was a fire lit to destroy it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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